Kelly has been working on her portrait skills by sketching her friends. Really, she wants to cartoon, but she has such a heavy school load that she cannot work it in other than about one drawing per night and a few on the weekend.  She figures if she keeps up her drawing skills for the next couple of years she will be ready to dive in again on her cartooning during graduate school.  Kelly started drawing a set of comic strip characters based around a little girl named Betty Blonde since she was nine.  Then she drew and published a daily comic strip for two full years starting when she was fourteen. You can check it out here:  Betty Blonde